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13 Jun 2013
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Learning Curve

Marshall Tuck with kids Photo courtesy of Marshall Tuck Marshall Tuck's exciting new job had a rough start. Selected in late 2006 to head a turnaround of the Los Angeles Unified School District, Tuck (MBA 2000) saw his position evaporate a week before the start date,... View Details

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13 Dec 2011
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Carry It On

Glassman: A helping hand for deserving HBS students. Courtesy Robert Glassman Related Links MBA Fellowships Bob Glassman’s (MBA ’69) longstanding support of HBS—particularly the HBS student fellowship he established in 1984—is rooted in his commitment to society,... View Details

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28 Feb 2013
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Boston-area Nonprofits Receive $2.25 Million in MacArthur Grants

Keywords: Professor David Moss; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

20 Dec 2018
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Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni

was also highlighted. The idea for the webinar came to club president Charles Lazarevic (AMP 161) during an information-packed presentation by Baker librarians at the Spring Reunions. “During the Q&A, they said they could offer the London Club a View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

30 Jun 2019
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Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo

there. The self-made entrepreneurs’ stories underline a complementary approach to driving business ventures—using intuition and life experience, instead of analyses and case studies. But they also share similar levels of grit, ambition... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2018
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Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard

eventually like to pursue a PhD in business. Kim, who was one of Castro’s mentors, followed a similar path. She was a rising Harvard College senior when she participated in PRIMO in 2011 and is now a member of the Darden marketing faculty... View Details

06 Dec 2021
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Truth Be Told

modern regulators, such as the SEC whistleblower program [a similar program authorized in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act], the DOT’s Motor Vehicle Safety whistleblower program, and more recently the Treasury’s anti-money-laundering whistleblower... View Details

Keywords: April White; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

26 Nov 2018
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New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change

they’re ready to join one. “The forum is similar to a True North group or a YPO group,” says Van Sheets (MBA 1983), who helped the club launch its first two forums three years ago, following the lead of other clubs with successful forums,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; clubs; alumni clubs

01 Dec 1999
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South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency

similar issues." Two years ago HBS and Wits Business School in Johannesburg established the program in order to aid the rapid economic and social changes taking place in southern Africa. Participants are middle managers from the private... View Details

Keywords: Morgan Baker

01 Feb 2001
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Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde

solutions that you would recommend? In 1977, the United States passed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which made it illegal to bribe a foreign government official. Two decades later, the Europeans passed similar laws. I'd like... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Government

15 Jun 2021
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From Das’s Desk

and retirees, alumnae, MBA and Executive Education alumni—and across all industries and time zones, further proving the need for lifelong-learning content, whether strictly virtual, in-person, or in some hybrid format still to come. Reunions We’ve applied a View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out

order, and promised a free replacement shipment of a similar product. Gisholt and Minard stayed in Florida to enjoy the rest of their family vacation, although Gisholt admits he probably spent more time on the phone that day than he did... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2008
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Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead

All manner of publications are on a similar trajectory. And going “all-in online” has peculiar cultural drawbacks. I’ve never worked at a magazine or newspaper where print writers gleefully did stories for their Web site. Why bust your... View Details

Keywords: Roben Farzad; journalism; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2004
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One-on-One with William H. Donaldson

emerged after the booming 1990s and the resulting public uproar that forced Congress to pass the Sarbanes-Oxley Act were eerily similar to the period leading up to the market crash of 1929. Coming out of that, the president of the New... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA

80 percent is done by the faculty?” That would leave 20 percent for skilled nonfaculty practitioners to advance certain teaching objectives, Palepu explains. Garvin cautiously suggests a similar approach, turning to Harvard Medical School... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Feb 2013
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Among millions, a blank slate

20 Oct 2016
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Smart Moves

INRIX analytics offer similar benefits to corporate customers, Mistele adds, providing greater efficiencies to company fleet operations, commuting time estimates to realtors and home buyers, hourly traffic patterns to retailers and... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation

01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake

findings to Quelch. Comparing notes after the exercise, most found they had reached similar conclusions. As an added bonus, the class also learned what ads Intel ultimately chose - and why - directly from Linda Clark, Intel's director of... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

12 Nov 2019
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Seismic Shift

actually put wheels in motion—and they didn’t jump up and down,” she says. The experience stumped Hoffman, and as she began to have more similar encounters over the next few years, she began to see politics, as she puts it, get in the way... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Mar 2008
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An American Odyssey

leadership.” Be it in Washington’s poorer neighborhoods or Africa’s sprawling urban settlements — indeed, in struggling societies around the globe — America sees similarities and at least one constant: a crippling and unaddressed economic... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Lawrence Fouraker; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance

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